Week 11: Nov 14 - Nov 18 Finish all work on Chapters 4 & 5. One concern I have at this time is that some of you folks are not getting getting on the websites early enough to allow feedback from each other. My strong suggestion is that when given reading and questions, you get right on it lets considerWednesday our first due date and then you have Thursday to get back on the website and read and learn from each other, to comment on your classmates responses. During our weekly meeting we will look back at our frog experiments and try to see how consultants hired be to poke holes in original scientists. We will meet at 1:00 PM on Saturday, Nov 19 at CHS.
Weeks 12 & 13: Nov 21 - Dec 2
1.At our next meeting my expectations is that you will have read and responded as instructed to the Scientific Journal article assigned on Friday Nov 18. My expectation is a well written, and thoughtful piece that: a. Summarizes the scientists work. b. Summarizes what the scientists learned. c. Put your self in the role of a researcher on the team, what do you think it would be like to be part of that team. d. Come up with some thoughtful questions, either things you did not understand or next steps you think could be taken.
2. Additionally I would like you to write up the lab we do on Saturday the 19th. If you participate in the lab on Saturday, you can pair up with someone else and write one lab. Those of you who can not make our meeting on Saturday should see me so we can schedule a time for you to come in a do the lab.
3. Remember our next meeting is the first meeting in the month of December therefore you will need to come with a story from Living on Earth to share. Weeks 14 & 15: Dec 2- Dec 9 1.Week of Dec 2,we met with the Earth Service Club students and learned a bit about solid waste and the recycling issues here in Concord.
2. Your grass flats are finally starting to grow ... hopefully we will be able to complete that lab in a month or so.
3. If you missed the plankton diversity lab on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, please come in and seem me, I have fresh plankton upstairs.
4. I still need summaries of the scientific journal as assigned above, from a bunch of you!
5. On Friday Dec 9th ... we will share our Living on Earth stories.
6. I still need to complete your exam ... we will call it our tri-mester exam.
7. You should be reading and completing the questions for chapter six, be sure to complete posted worksheet and respond to all the wonderful I have posted for you.
Weeks 16: Dec 10- Dec 16
1. I will complete and post your exam ... we will call it our tri-mester exam (reflect information chaps 1 -7) & it will be due on Jan 3, 2011.
2. You should be reading and completing the questions for chapter seven.
Weeks 17 & 18 : Jan 3- Jan 13 I will not be in this morning! 1. Read and complete posted work for chapter 8 Energy and Civilization: Patterns of Consumption
2. Read introduction and chapters 1 - 3 of Silent Spring.
Quarter Three Weeks 19 & 20 Jan 28th 1. Read through chapter six of Silent Spring. Come to our session on Friday Jan 28th read to respond to the questions found on our Silent Spring page. You do not need to write out the answers ...but it will be my expectation that you will be able to respond to all questions during our Friday meeting.
Week 21 Feb 3We are redoing this week due to weather and field trips Read through chapter six of Silent Spring. Come to our session on Friday Feb 3 read to respond to the questions found on our Silent Spring page. You do not need to write out the answers ...but it will be my expectation that you will be able to respond to all questions during our Friday meeting. Weeks 22 & 23 Feb 10 & 17 1. Read and complete posted work for Chapter 9 Energy Sources
2. Go to The Habitable Planet Website and follow the links to the interactive labs page then complete both the Carbon Cycle Activity and the Energy Activity. Complete the data sheets, I will bring paper copies of this to our Jan 28th session & then post outside my office.
2. During our Friday Feb 10th morning session we will simulate a U.S. Cabinet level Energy Policy meeting ...the goal of which will be to develop an energy policy for the country for the next 20 years.
Week 24 - 27 Feb 24 - Mar 8
1. Feb 24 - We will discuss Chapters 4 -6. Please come to the session with discussion questions.
2. Be working on Chapter 11/Biodiversity.
3. For Mar 8 Complete tri-mester exam.
Week 27 Mar 16 1. On Friday Mar 9th we went over Silent Spring questions through Chap 4. Tri-mester exam was not ready to hand out during class but should be ready this week – pick up copy from folder outside of Ms. Bofinger’s office. 2. In last Friday's class we also assigned the remaining chapters in the text – see table below. Students who were not in class should pair up with other students and work on chapter together. The expectation is not to provide a summary of the chapter, but to get across the big ideas of the chapter and create assignments(s) that facilitate learning and a greater understanding of the material.
Name
Chapter
Ms. Kilday
12 – Land Use Planning
Catie & Alex
13 – Soil and Its Uses
Nick
14 – Agricultural Methods and Pest Management
Max
15 – Water Management
Mohan
16 – Air Quality Issues
Freddie
17 – Solid Waste Management and Disposal
18 – Environmental Regulations: Hazardous Substances and Wastes
19 – Environmental Policy and Decision Making
3.Assignment for this week – read through and become familiar with material in Chapter 12. For Friday’s class (March 16th - we will simulate a land-use planning board meeting so you should come to class prepared to discuss issues raised in Chapter 12 from the perspective of a person on the land-use planning board. Week 28 Mar 23 1. On Friday Mar 16th we started discussions on Chapter 12 – Land Use Planning. We looked over topographic maps of the Concord area from 1927(?) through 1984(?) to see the changes in land use through the years. We will continue the same exercise this week looking at and listing specific changes in the area. And discussing other land-use planning issues. 2. The tri-mester exam was handed out during class – extra copies are available in the folder outside of Ms. Bofinger’s office. Week 31 Apr 13 For the past few weeks we've been working on Land-Use Planning. We looked over topographic maps of the Concord area from 1927 through 1984 to see the changes in land use through the years. For Friday Apr 13th we will allott class time to catching up with working on the chapters that have been posted.
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Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships [Book] by Eldon D. Enger, Bradley Smith in Books
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Quarter Two
Week 11: Nov 14 - Nov 18
Finish all work on Chapters 4 & 5. One concern I have at this time is that some of you folks are not getting
getting on the websites early enough to allow feedback from each other. My strong suggestion is that when given reading and questions, you get right on it lets considerWednesday our first due date and then you have Thursday to get back on the website and read and learn from each other, to comment on your classmates responses.
During our weekly meeting we will look back at our frog experiments and try to see how consultants hired be to poke holes in original scientists. We will meet at 1:00 PM on Saturday, Nov 19 at CHS.
Weeks 12 & 13: Nov 21 - Dec 2
1.At our next meeting my expectations is that you will have read and responded as instructed to the Scientific Journal article assigned on Friday Nov 18. My expectation is a well written, and thoughtful piece that:
a. Summarizes the scientists work.
b. Summarizes what the scientists learned.
c. Put your self in the role of a researcher on the team, what do you think it would be like to be part of that team.
d. Come up with some thoughtful questions, either things you did not understand or next steps you think could be taken.
2. Additionally I would like you to write up the lab we do on Saturday the 19th. If you participate in the lab on Saturday, you can pair up with someone else and write one lab. Those of you who can not make our meeting on Saturday should see me so we can schedule a time for you to come in a do the lab.
3. Remember our next meeting is the first meeting in the month of December therefore you will need to come with a story from Living on Earth to share.
Weeks 14 & 15: Dec 2- Dec 9
1. Week of Dec 2,we met with the Earth Service Club students and learned a bit about solid waste and the recycling issues here in Concord.
2. Your grass flats are finally starting to grow ... hopefully we will be able to complete that lab in a month or so.
3. If you missed the plankton diversity lab on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, please come in and seem me, I have fresh plankton upstairs.
4. I still need summaries of the scientific journal as assigned above, from a bunch of you!
5. On Friday Dec 9th ... we will share our Living on Earth stories.
6. I still need to complete your exam ... we will call it our tri-mester exam.
7. You should be reading and completing the questions for chapter six, be sure to complete posted worksheet and respond to all the wonderful I have posted for you.
Weeks 16: Dec 10- Dec 16
1. I will complete and post your exam ... we will call it our tri-mester exam (reflect information chaps 1 -7) & it will be due on Jan 3, 2011.
2. You should be reading and completing the questions for chapter seven.
Weeks 17 & 18 : Jan 3- Jan 13 I will not be in this morning!
1. Read and complete posted work for chapter 8 Energy and Civilization: Patterns of Consumption
2. Read introduction and chapters 1 - 3 of Silent Spring.
Quarter Three
Weeks 19 & 20 Jan 28th
1. Read through chapter six of Silent Spring. Come to our session on Friday Jan 28th read to respond to the questions found on our Silent Spring page. You do not need to write out the answers ...but it will be my expectation that you will be able to respond to all questions during our Friday meeting.
Week 21 Feb 3 We are redoing this week due to weather and field trips
Read through chapter six of Silent Spring. Come to our session on Friday Feb 3 read to respond to the questions found on our Silent Spring page. You do not need to write out the answers ...but it will be my expectation that you will be able to respond to all questions during our Friday meeting.
Weeks 22 & 23 Feb 10 & 17
1. Read and complete posted work for Chapter 9 Energy Sources
2. Go to The Habitable Planet Website and follow the links to the interactive labs page then complete both the Carbon Cycle Activity and the Energy Activity. Complete the data sheets, I will bring paper copies of this to our Jan 28th session & then post outside my office.
2. During our Friday Feb 10th morning session we will simulate a U.S. Cabinet level Energy Policy meeting ...the goal of which will be to develop an energy policy for the country for the next 20 years.
Week 24 - 27 Feb 24 - Mar 8
1. Feb 24 - We will discuss Chapters 4 -6. Please come to the session with discussion questions.
2. Be working on Chapter 11/Biodiversity.
3. For Mar 8 Complete tri-mester exam.
Week 27 Mar 16
1. On Friday Mar 9th we went over Silent Spring questions through Chap 4. Tri-mester exam was not ready to hand out during class but should be ready this week – pick up copy from folder outside of Ms. Bofinger’s office.
2. In last Friday's class we also assigned the remaining chapters in the text – see table below. Students who were not in class should pair up with other students and work on chapter together. The expectation is not to provide a summary of the chapter, but to get across the big ideas of the chapter and create assignments(s) that facilitate learning and a greater understanding of the material.
3.Assignment for this week – read through and become familiar with material in Chapter 12. For Friday’s class (March 16th - we will simulate a land-use planning board meeting so you should come to class prepared to discuss issues raised in Chapter 12 from the perspective of a person on the land-use planning board.
Week 28 Mar 23
1. On Friday Mar 16th we started discussions on Chapter 12 – Land Use Planning. We looked over topographic maps of the Concord area from 1927(?) through 1984(?) to see the changes in land use through the years. We will continue the same exercise this week looking at and listing specific changes in the area. And discussing other land-use planning issues.
2. The tri-mester exam was handed out during class – extra copies are available in the folder outside of Ms. Bofinger’s office.
Week 31 Apr 13
For the past few weeks we've been working on Land-Use Planning. We looked over topographic maps of the Concord area from 1927 through 1984 to see the changes in land use through the years. For Friday Apr 13th we will allott class time to catching up with working on the chapters that have been posted.